Burning Angel

Sonny Boy Marsallus, a New Orleans fixer, flees to Latin America when his dealings with the Giacano crime family get too dangerous. Upon his return, he entrusts Detective Dave Robicheaux with a mysterious notebook, hinting at dark secrets from his time abroad. As Robicheaux investigates a land dispute involving a local family and a powerful manor lord, he finds himself entangled with mobsters and a hired assassin whose past connects to Sonny Boy.